Proverbs 12:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

WHOEVER LOVES instruction and correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is like a brute beast, stupid and indiscriminating.

American Standard Version (1901)

Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Common English Bible

Those who love discipline love knowledge, and those who hate correction are stupid.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. But whoever hates correction is unwise.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is foolish.

Proverbs 12:1 Cross References

Psalm 119:27

Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous strike me; let the faithful correct me. Never let the oil of the wicked anoint my head, for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

Psalm 32:9

Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not stay near you.

Psalm 50:17

For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

Psalm 92:6

The dullard cannot know; the stupid cannot understand this:

Proverbs 10:8

The wise of heart will heed commandments, but one with foolish lips will come to ruin.

Proverbs 11:31

If the righteous are repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Proverbs 12:2

The good obtain favor from the Lord, but those who devise evil he condemns.

Proverbs 15:10

There is severe discipline for one who forsakes the way; one who hates a rebuke will die.

Proverbs 18:1

The one who lives alone is self-indulgent, showing contempt for all sound judgment.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am too stupid to be human; I do not have human understanding.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Proverbs 8:32

“And now, my children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 8:36

but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

Leviticus 13:10

The priest shall make an examination, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.